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Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness: Parts 1 and 2

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Conrad, Joseph

Conrad, Joseph
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Heart Of Darkness: Parts 1 and 2

Introduction:

In September of 1889, Conrad began writing his first novel, Almayer's
Folly, but he was more interested in beginning an adventure which was to
provide material for one of his most widely read works, Heart of Darkness.
Years before, in 1868, when he was a boy of nine, Conrad had been staring at a
map of Africa. Pointing with his finger to the blank space that was the then
unexplored heart of the continent, he said, "When I grow up I shall go there."
Now, twenty-one years later and in a different country, ...

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